If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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